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Welcome to How I Meditate from the Meditate This! Podcast. This series is intended reveal personal experiences with meditation and mindfulness as a way to help others refine, rejuvenate, or even just begin a practice. Meditation can seem weird, creepy, and meaningless. But maybe it helps to hear how it's different for someone else...or how it's not.

Each episode answers 4 basic questions:

1. How do you meditate?

2. What was is like the very first time you meditated?

3. An example of when you noticed meditation made a difference in your life.

4. What other activities help you stay mindful on a regular basis?

Please visit the How I Meditate page at www.MeditateThisPodcast.com to learn more and submit your own How I Meditate story.

Thanks!

Pete and Jay

Welcome to How I Meditate from the Meditate This! Podcast. This series is intended reveal personal experiences with meditation and mindfulness as a way to help others refine, rejuvenate, or even just begin a practice. Meditation can seem weird, creepy, and meaningless. But maybe it helps to hear how it's different for someone else...or how it's not.

Each episode answers 4 basic questions:

1. How do you meditate?

2. What was is like the very first time you meditated?

3. An example of when you noticed meditation made a difference in your life.

4. What other activities help you stay mindful on a regular basis?

Please visit the How I Meditate page at www.MeditateThisPodcast.com to learn more and submit your own How I Meditate story.

Thanks!

Pete and Jay

Whether it be on a retreat into literal darkness that helped her contemplate her life so far or the bright and bustling business she has built over the past three decades, Tami Simon pursues truth in every corner it may hide.

As the founder of Sounds True, a multimedia publishing company that offers spiritual wisdom from the likes of Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Pema Chodron—among so many others—Simon has built a profound resource for those seeking to understand. And now Simon is adding to the conversation herself with the audio program Being True. Take a listen—right after listening to her tell us the story of how she came to be one of the consciousness movement's most influential promoters.

Welcome to How I Meditate from the Meditate This! Podcast. This series is intended reveal personal experiences with meditation and mindfulness as a way to help others refine, rejuvenate, or even just begin a practice. Meditation can seem weird, creepy, and meaningless. But maybe it helps to hear how it's different for someone else...or how it's not.

Each episode answers 4 basic questions:

1. How do you meditate?

2. What was is like the very first time you meditated?

3. An example of when you noticed meditation made a difference in your life.

4. What other activities help you stay mindful on a regular basis?

Please visit the How I Meditate page at www.MeditateThisPodcast.com to learn more and submit your own How I Meditate story.

Thanks!

Pete and Jay

Growing up in Chicago during the 1950s and 1960s, Radhanath Swami (then Richard Slavin) had plenty to be restless about—civil rights injustices, Vietnam, and a general aversion to the trappings of suburban comfort. By 19, he'd had enough. It was time to go in search of something greater. That quest took him—as a penniless hitchhiker—though Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally, to India. It was there that he embarked on a more than 45-year study of Bhakti yoga that has included living in Himalayan caves and forests.

His early travels were documented in the book The Journey Home and more recent explorations are brought to light in his new book, The Journey Within. But before you read both, be sure to hear Radhanath Swami tell Pete and Jay how he searches for the underlying love and simplicity in everything he does and uses it to guide his every moment.

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Welcome to How I Meditate from the Meditate This! Podcast. This series is intended reveal personal experiences with meditation and mindfulness as a way to help others refine, rejuvenate, or even just begin a practice. Meditation can seem weird, creepy, and meaningless. But maybe it helps to hear how it's different for someone else...or how it's not.

Each episode answers 4 basic questions:

1. How do you meditate?

2. What was is like the very first time you meditated?

3. An example of when you noticed meditation made a difference in your life.

4. What other activities help you stay mindful on a regular basis?

Please visit the How I Meditate page at www.MeditateThisPodcast.com to learn more and submit your own How I Meditate story.

Thanks!

Pete and Jay

Charlie Hartwell has always pursued balance. He complemented his degrees from Brown and Harvard with the education that comes from world travels that included hitchhiking alone by night on desolate roads. While working on Wall Street by day, he spent nights helping start a charity in Africa. He excelled at marketing for the likes of Heinz and Pillsbury while always searching for the intangible - the words that couldn't be spoken.

It makes perfect sense that he's now using his business acumen to help expand consciousness across the globe. As the operating partner in Bridge Builders Collaborative and co-founder, with his wife Maureen, of ShiftIt Institute, Hartwell is driving the evolution of an ancient tradition to provide comfort and insight to those who need it most. Hear how he came to this latest pursuit and why he believes this effort will be the defining achievement of his life.

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www.MeditateThisPodcast.com

Twitter: @MeditateThis

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Welcome to How I Meditate from the Meditate This! Podcast. This series is intended reveal personal experiences with meditation and mindfulness as a way to help others refine, rejuvenate, or even just begin a practice. Meditation can seem weird, creepy, and meaningless. But maybe it helps to hear how it's different for someone else...or how it's not.

Each episode answers 4 basic questions:

1. How do you meditate?

2. What was is like the very first time you meditated?

3. An example of when you noticed meditation made a difference in your life.

4. What other activities help you stay mindful on a regular basis?

Please visit the How I Meditate page at www.MeditateThisPodcast.com to learn more and submit your own How I Meditate story.

Thanks!

Pete and Jay

All of us talk about it. There's something else we feel like we should be doing—if only we knew what. Or how. Or where. Karan Bajaj was born and raised in the Indian Himalayas, but it was only when he became a successful marketer—earning the title of "top 40 under 40" by Advertising Age in 2007—that he started to feel the call toward a more spiritual path. But that didn't mean abandoning his life and accomplishments completely. Instead, Bajaj embarked on a rather inventive system of working 4 years on and 1 year off. In the "unscripted" periods, he travels the world, writes, and deepens his exploration of Eastern mysticism.

Bajaj's books include Johnny Gone Down (a #1 bestseller in India) and his latest novel,The Yoga of Max's Discontent. A beloved blogger who offers regular tips on writing andmeditation, Bajaj has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and more.

Hear his highly accessible perspectives on living mindfully in a fairly mindless world, the many questions raised when discussing the afterlife, and the art of honoring your inclinations while making your sure always leave that window open for the next adventure.

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S&M. Meatball subs. Interviewing Swamis. What don't Pete and Jay cover in this episode of "Mailbag"?

Hear them answer questions from listeners across the country on the great central issues of our time. This episode tackles quick fixes for anxiety, the roots of their interest in mindfulness, and how they use their natural curiosity to talk to some of the wisest people in the world. Pour yourself a milkshake and get ready for some good old-fashioned fun.

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